This is inherited from Mandriva, but this is one of the decision/defaults I did never understand and had to change whenever I installed Mandriva for family & friends. Only programmers would prefer a nodeadkeys layout (or know what deadkeys are to begin with), the casual user just expects the keyboard to behave like it does on Windows or Mac. For this reason, the default for German should be the plain varian with enabled deadkeys, and not the nodeadkeys version.
CC: (none) => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2
assigning to maintainer
CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaudSeverity: normal => enhancement
still applies to beta3 live iso. Annoying..
Component: Installer => RPM PackagesAssignee: thierry.vignaud => bugsquadSource RPM: drakx-installer-stage2 => drakx-kbd-mouse-x11
Created attachment 2203 [details] does this patch works? (to apply in /usr/lib/libDrakX)
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFOAssignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
If I understand the list correctly, it is locale => keyboardvariant:weight keyboardvariant2:weight2 Although it is unclear to me at first sight where the weight is used (if at all) In any case - your patch lists "de" twice with different weights, but should just swap de with de_nodeadkeys: - 'de' => 'de_nodeadkeys:70 de:50 be:50 ch_de:50', + 'de' => 'de:70 de_nodeadkeys:50 be:50 ch_de:50', Not sure whether the "needmoreinfo" was meant for me, the reporter - assuming so and removing it.
Keywords: NEEDINFO => (none)
Did you test keyboarddrake with that change applied?
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Yes - boot to live-iso and wait a little at the language selection prompt for the vts to be setup. Switch to vt2, login as root, change keyboard.pm, switch back to language selection, accept licenseã& choose timezone, then on the keyboard-layout selection dialog the deadkeys variant is preselected, accept, boot into gnome â keyboard works as expected.
Thanks for the testing. Fixed in GIT
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED
is this similar to bug #3316 ?
CC: (none) => alien
not sure why Thierry added back the NEEDMOREINFO keyword without actually asking for more info - assuming a mistake and removing it again. and answering to AL13N: No, this is not similar to bug#3316 - it is only about the initial selection done when installing Mageia. Only if the non-graphical terminals would have the wrong layout, then there might be something wrong with the keyboard-setup. If it is only KDE, then it is KDE that overrides the keyboard/uses an input method that conflicts with the default layout. (I for example use engish and german keyboard layouts that I configured using Gnome's keyboard settings, and additionally ibus with anthy.)